some thoughts from the peanut gallery....
Why is it that we can never fully appreciate what is going on around us? We never seem to realize until something is gone, just how good it was. Our ability to anticipate the feeling of loss before it comes is childishly weak. A child would never take the time to stand back and appreciate how good the responsibility-free life of a child is. And us as “grown-ups”, is it that our ability to perceive our surroundings is jaded by the moment that we find ourselves stuck in or is it that we really are that slow to learn? What if we could experience the loss of the moment before the moment ever ended? How would that change the way we perceive the “now”? Would we actually take the time to sit back and realize how blessed we are? Would we live for the moment and embrace the “now”? Maybe it really is that in order to live in the “now” we also have to live in the “then”. If we could just shift our ever present focus from the “now” to the “then”, maybe when the “then” came along the hole in our hearts would not be as deep. Even more then that, maybe we could learn to appreciate the “now” for how great it really is. Maybe I could learn to be gratefull that she is a part of my life while she still is and maybe that in turn would help make the “then” just a thought that came by from time to time to remind me of the “now”.
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